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Well, that was a veritable shitstorm (sorry for the language). Long story short, MelonCard was featured today on TechCrunch (along with other500Startups companies, also on VentureBeat, Forbes, …) and everything broke all at once. Every. little. thing. We had rolled out a huge change to MelonCard over the last few days to make our site a seamless “everything just updates” look-good / feel-good product using NodeJS long-polling w...

As a web developer, besides writing HTML code, there is much more to do before the site can go live. You may consider about user experience, device compatibility, security etc. To be a good web developer, you should acquire some essential skills for web development. Below we list some of them. Some of them you may be familiar with a long time ago, but definitely some of them you may not be so familiar with or even never hear about before.
Interface and User Experience
Be aware that browsers imp...

Computerworld - At a
cloud computing conference in New York in June, a number of speakers
pointed out that the cloud is moving past the hype stage and is
beginning to deliver tangible benefits to organizations. These
improvements include increased flexibility and agility.
But moving to the cloud can also mean added costs, some of which
might be unexpected, according to IT executives whose organizations have
implemented cloud services or are considering them.
While these types of costs ...

If you Google “Java is the new COBOL” you’ll find a glut of articles proliferating this mantra. I don’t know its origins, however I’m inclined to think it’s mostly repeated (and believed) by the Ruby community. Ruby, from a developer’s perspective is a low-friction language. A developer can just sit down at a text editor and start banging out code without really thinking about such superflous things as types. Java on the other hand, well, you have to think a lot about types. J...

AN APOCRYPHAL tale is told about Henry Ford II showing Walter Reuther, the veteran leader of the United Automobile Workers, around a newly automated car plant. “Walter, how are you going to get those robots to pay your union dues,” gibed the boss of Ford Motor Company. Without skipping a beat, Reuther replied, “Henry, how are you going to get them to buy your cars?”Whether the exchange was true or not is irrelevant. The point was that any increase in productivity required a corresponding...

In conventional java programming, you will never need address or location of a java object from memory. When you discuss about this in forums, the first question raised is why do you need to know the address of a java object? Its a valid question. But always, we reserve the right to experiment. Nothing is wrong in exploring uncharted areas.I thought of experimenting using a little known class from sun package. Unsafe is a class that belongs to sun.misc package. For some of you the package might ...

The ecosystem for open source Python projects is both rich and diverse.
This enables you to stand on the shoulders of giants in the production of
your next open source project. In addition, it means that there's a set of
community norms and best practices. By adhering to these conventions and
applying the practices in your project, you may gain wider adoption for
your software.
This article covers practi...

It's the shooter season of the year and this fall was all about Modern Warfare 3 versus Battlefield 3. And being the kind of game they are they also try to keep their audience playing by introducing some additional level of engagement. Both Call of Duty and Battlefield introduced their own online community websites and statistic platforms. Call of Duty has Elite, Battlefield has Battelog.But just because these services are sitting in the same spot it does not mean they are in any way similar. An...

The most important thing I
have done as a programmer in recent years is to aggressively pursue
static code analysis. Even more valuable than the hundreds of serious
bugs I have prevented with it is the change in mindset about the way I
view software reliability and code quality.It is important to say right up front that quality isn’t everything, and acknowledging it isn’t some sort of moral failing. Value
is what you are trying to produce, and quality is only one aspect of
...

PHP has been around for a long time, and it’s starting to show its
age. From top to bottom, the language has creaky joints. I’ve decided to
take a look at how things got to this point, and what can be (and is
being) done about it. I start out pretty gloomy, but bear with me; I
promise it gets better.
In the Beginning, There Was Apache and CGI
And there was much rejoicing.
In 1994, Rasmus Lerdorf created the “Personal Home Page Tools,” a set
of CGI binaries written in C. These t...